Solar-powered Plane Continues Worldwide Flight

Associated Press, New York Post
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 12:28am

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — A solar-powered airplane landed in suburban Phoenix Monday night after a daylong flight from California — the latest leg in its around the world journey using only energy from the sun. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 arrived in the suburb of Goodyear, just to the southwest of Phoenix, shortly before 9 p.m....

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